I also went there last year for three weeks and yes! everything you say is so true! I never got lost because there was always someone to help me! I learned Japanese for three years so it helped me a lot more to communicate with them. Outside the city everything is so full of nature, wild mountains, the rivers are so clean you can see the pebbles at the bottom, trees are so big and everything is so clean. Japanese people truly take care of their country. It was really a shock to return to my own country and see how people behave here! It was embarrassing to see the garbage and how awful people are to each other. I will make my best to return to Japan!

Yes, japanese people are very polite and kind. But you have to know that it's all about apparences there. Not that all the japanese are awful in the inside, far from it! But they will never ever express their true feelings and really tell you what they truly think of your behaviour. It took me many travels and years of marriage with a japanese woman to understand this. Now that I'm not a tourist anymore when I go there, people tend to be more honest with me and sometimes I'm a very surprised when they say that my behaviour is quite rude... And trust me, japanese people are not very nice to each other. Quite the opposite actually. If you make the mistake of wanting too much freedom (I know americans tend to like this), you can be ostracized very quickly. That's one of the reason why japanese people are so stressed all the time and the suicide rate is so high... So be very careful if you wish to live in Japan one day! You may be disappointed.

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